Social Search News
Bing Redesigned For Social Search
18th May 2012
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, was given a new facade last week. The change however, is not just visual, but functional as well. With this new design Microsoft hopes to be able to better incorporate social into their search engine. More »
Google Launches +1 Button. Webmasters React: “Meh!”
3rd June 2011
Google has once again tried to break into the social market, this time by launching the much talked-about +1 button. Not quite surprisingly, the launch was devoid of the usual fanfare accompanying a Google product launch and the results so far might give a clue why. More »
Google v Bing – Kings Of Social Search?
21st October 2010
Microsoft engineers teamed up with Facebook developers, once again to make Bing search results more social. This new social search service was announced just a week age. Since then, it could only be a matter of time before Google did something similar. Predictably, Google has just introduced social enhancements to their search service. More »
Bing Recommends Twitter Users Based On Search
27th September 2010
Bing Social now recommends Twitter users that a user could follow, based on their search query. The new feature is known as ‘People Recommendation’. More »
Over-Inflated Twitter Search Volumes
21st July 2010
For some time now, it has been believed that the number of search queries that Twitter receives is growing in leaps and bounds. This might not be completely true. More »
Facebook & Bing Update Relationship
15th February 2010
Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for a while now, and they have now decided to expand the scope of their working relationship. More »
How Social Is Google Social Search?
1st February 2010
Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »
Taptu Brings Realtime Search To Mobile
16th November 2009
With the growing popularity of realtime search, it was only a matter of time before it became available on the mobile Web. Taptu has managed to beat Google and Microsoft to become the first provider of realtime search on mobile. More »
Yahoo! Experiments With Real Time Search
9th November 2009
With both Microsoft and then Google announcing individual deals that give them access to real time information on Twitter, Yahoo! cannot afford to be left behind in the race. More »
Bing First To Search Live Twitter Streams
22nd October 2009
At the recently held Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Qi Lu, the President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, spoke to Tim Reilly of TechCrunch, about the new facilities soon to be launched on their new search engine Bing. More »
Yahoo! Launches New Social Profiles
20th October 2008
For almost a year now, Yahoo! has been talking about their new ‘Yahoo! Open Strategy‘. They have finally begun to roll out user profiles, which form the backbone of the social part of their open strategy. More »
Social Search Launches On Microsoft Live
9th June 2008
Microsoft has just launched a new service called Search Together, which will be a free service allowing groups of people to work on Web searches in conjunction with each other. More »
Googling With A Little Help From My Friends
6th February 2008
Google is toying with the idea of social search. Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search products and user experience first hinted about this in August 2007. This week they have gone and launched a Social Graph API to solidify the possibility that Google might consider social search seriously. More »
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